Quick, Playful Writing Exercises for When You’re Feeling Stuck
These unintimidating experiments will reinvigorate your writing when you need a breakthrough
These unintimidating experiments will reinvigorate your writing when you need a breakthrough
These authors illustrate the complexity of finding our place in the world
“Day Care” author Nora Lange on writing while walking, notes we leave ourselves, and the mother as chimera
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With no institution advising these writers where to go, they go everywhere
Hallie Cantor’s “Like This, But Funnier” pokes fun at the entertainment industry's incessant appetite for burnt-out screenwriters
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“Nuts” by Katie Schorr, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
“The Person Who Lives Here Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” flash fiction by Ben Daggers
An excerpt from SURRENDER by Jennifer Acker, recommended by Ben Shattuck